The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-08
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TIE HERALD is not opposed to the
organization of a board of trade or
chamber Of commerce Tor Salt Lake
City. On the contrary this journal is
decidedly IN favor of such an organlza-
ton. THE HERALD advocated cham
. Der of commerce fifteen years ago; it
advocated one ten years ago; it has
desired a chamber OF commerce ever
since its first issue; it has urged from
the outset capitalists and business men,
merchants and bankers, property
owners and influential citizens to unite
for the purpose of silencing the ruinous
agitation which has been going on for
seventeen years, and for pulling to-
gether fer the development, progress
and general Advance of the city and
Territory. The senseless agitation has
retarded progress many years, has pre-
vented the incoming Of capital, has
kept desirable people away, and delayed
the development of natural resources;
it's doing all these things to-day as it
has been doing them these many weary
years.
TIE herald is now as earnest as
ever in its desire for chamber of COM
merce; as sincere in its wish that the
prosperity destroying sensationalism
may be suppressed and the people of the
country united in harmonious effort to
utilize the great natural advantages
which have hitherto been neglected.
We are not even opposed to the present
movement in the direction of the for
nation of a chamber of commerce. Our
position is simply and plainly this-the
chamber, to be useful or beneficial in
any sense, must be non-partisan in its
membership, and. must ignore local
political and religious questions in its
operations. The board must have suf-
fcient influence to put a stop
to the agitation which destroys
confidence in Utah, and to forbid
the manufacture of the sensations
which give the outside world the
impression that this Territory is in a
state of perpetual turmoil into which
il IS urprofita BILE, and unsafe for men or
capital to engage. A chamber made
up of one party TO the exclusion of the
other, cannot succeed, and under the
existing condition of things there can
not be a chamber made up of both
parties. In other words, Mormon
merchants and business men will not
clasp hands with those who have
brought about the unhappy state of
affairs and who are still working to
bring distress and ruin to the business
and people of this Territory. The
commercial class among the. Mormons,
whose cooperation is essential to the
success of the chamber, will
not work harmoniously with men
who go out of the chamber to use
their money and employ their
ability in the Loyal League to destroy
the influence and work of the chamber
of commerce. Judge Bennett cannot
go into the chamber and teach peac e
and union one night and the next night,
as paid sgitator of the Loyal League,
preach hate and discord. and expect
Mormon merchants to applaud or sus-
tain him. Governor West cannot &C
Oept the Loyal Leaguers' commission to
Washington to lobby against the rights
and best interests of the people of Utah,
and then expect the Mormon business
men.to train under him in the cham
Der Of commerce. The chamber of
commerce cannot be a success
while it is, employed as a tail
to the Loyal League kite, nor
viii it be conducive to harmony in
the community while tits an appendage
OF the Alta Club. The Loyal League
must 80 before the chamber of COM
merce can amount TO anything; or, at
.leGst, if there are any non-Mormons
who hope to induce Mormons to join
with them in this movement, they must
first abandon their connection with the
Loyel League and thus show that they
are s:nc-re IN their professed desire to
see Utah prosper.
The reas n The HERALD has had no
faith IN the present scheme is found in
the fact that the gentlemen who are
the leaders in the movement. and who
have been most active in are promin-
ent in the Loyal League, and have
shown them selves, by words and deeds
70 be bitter enemies to the people OF tho
Territory and TO the public welfare.